Erection date: /5/2011
British Isles & Empire exhibitors: 7381
Foreign exhibitors: 6556
Number of exhibits: over 100,000
Duration of exhibition: 5½
Visitors: 6,039,205
Cheapest ticket: 1 shilling
The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations & Crystal Palace building
Hyde Park 1851
SW7
See the plaque at the entrance for more information about these 5 plaques.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NE
From the V&A website: "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - NE
Manages 8 major Royal Parks covering 5,000 acres: Bushy Park (with the Longf...
Samuel Smiles, 1812 - 1904, author of "Self Help", lived here. London County Council
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
Our photo is taken from the east. In the background you can see the inside of the retained arched stone entrance to The Colonnade from G...
This plaque was first erected on Lindsay's childhood home in Holloway, but when that was illegally demolished another home (Lindsay's and...
The Biblical quotation at the end of the inscription is from 1 John 3:16. This is a very unusual style for a WW1 memorial and we think i...
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